Kevin Thompson

Managing Director @GrowWithPillar Your Performance Driven Social Advertising Agency | Paid Ads Consulting | 🏒🥍🏌️‍♂️🇨🇦 @Everton Fan |

[Kevin Thompson @KevinThompsonn]

Smaller brands that are lacking traction to start, seemingly also have poor feedback loops with customers.

Be consumer-centric always, but more so when starting.

Talk to them, email them, set up post-purchase surveys, create a VIP Customers Group (Facebook or elsewhere).

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

The only recession in the G7.

[Kevin Thompson @KevinThompsonn]

@MarkJCarney

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Pierre Poilievre held emergency meeting 🇨🇦 in a full-blown affordability crisis.

Groceries are brutal.

Rent is brutal.

Mortgages are brutal.

Carney promised to make 🇨🇦 the most affordable country on earth.

Instead, he somehow made Trudeau look financially responsible.

[Kody Nordquist @KodyNordquist]

Really @couuor @Seanfrank? 500 AI ads per day? Is this real?

🧐🧐

[Andrew Foxwell 🦊 @andrewfoxwell]

1/New York just became the first US state to require advertisers to disclose AI-generated people in ads.

It takes effect June 9, 2026. If you run paid media, you have days, not months.

Here's what it actually means for your brand or agency. 🧵

[Michelle LA🇨🇦 @MichelleLA1981]

I think we can all agree the cuts need to come from immigrants, temporary foreign workers, foreign aid, and Mark's outrageous catering bills!!

[Jersey Jerry @Jerrythekid21]

61,667 Men make a choice each month. June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. Life is better with you here. Bro to bro, Love you 💙.

[Fake Mark Carney @MarkCarney_Ego]

Last year, I told Canadians I have a plan to build the strongest economy in the G7.

Today, under my leadership, Canada is the only G7 country officially in a recession.

I failed at the Bank of Canada. I failed at the Bank of England.

Now, I'm failing as Prime Minister.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Well Pierre called it earlier today on Parliament Hill.

Here he is saying Carney will refuse to answer questions today, and thats exactly what happened when Carney was asked to comment on the recession.
He scurried away.

[Irreverent Otter 🇨🇦 @IrreverentOtter]

Carney fucked around. Canada is about to find out.

[Josh Johnston @joshykobyashi]

Most agencies will never sell.

A client of mine landed on that truth this week. He has been running a profitable creative agency for years. Real clients. Real margins. Real team.

He started the call wanting to talk about creative testing. He ended the call building toward something else: an asset-owned model.

The numbers explained the shift. An agency at $1M/yr trades at 1-2x. A holdco that owns small profitable assets, run by the same team, trades at 4-6x. Same operators. Same hours. Different multiple.

This is the conversation most agency owners avoid because admitting it is uncomfortable. The agency you built is a job that pays well. It is not a business in the way a buyer counts it. The customers are the founder's relationships. The IP is in the founder's head. The team comes with the founder or it does not come at all.

There is no shame in this. The agency is a vehicle that worked. It paid the bills, taught the operator how to operate, built the team they would have killed for at 25.

The next move is the harder one. Use the cash flow to buy or build an asset that does not require you. Run the agency for as long as it serves the next thing.

The agency is not the destination. It is the runway.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

‼️NEW --Apple and Rogers have started an ad campaign in Canada

positioning themselves as the protectors of privacy

after body slamming and crushing Mark Carney's Bill C-22.

This is 4D chess marketing. Brilliant.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Witness the average Canadian at the beginning of this clip. This is how uninformed they are.

He was under the belief that the U.S. was doing worse than Canada. Now why would that be?

Our media & politicians have presented a false reality to the population.

[Dwight Singh Schrute @DwightSinghS]

Bishnoi gang members shooting into the woods near Terra Cotta Conservation in Caledon where people hike and picnic.

The Bishnoi gang is a Hindu gang being operated out of Indian embassies throughout Canada under the cover of diplomatic immunity.

[Kevin Thompson @KevinThompsonn]

@DannyJConrad God Mintzy is insufferable

[Melissa 🇨🇦 @MelissaLMRogers]

Imagine electing a Global Banker, Economist and Crisis Manager, and you end up in a recession 😅

Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦

[Kevin Thompson @KevinThompsonn]

Never listen to anyone who isn’t where you want to be.

Do they check the boxes of everything you want in life?

No?

Listen by observation, no need to act hastily.

[Kevin Thompson @KevinThompsonn]

Too many people produce content that it’s just noise… to those who know…

To those who don’t, it’s gold.

Fuck who knows…

Help who doesn’t.

[Kevin Thompson @KevinThompsonn]

Shits not hard… be good, do good, get good.

[Kevin Thompson @KevinThompsonn]

Retention hack that’s not a given… be personable.

If you’re not, hire someone who is.

LTV is good just from connections and communication

[Kevin Thompson @KevinThompsonn]

We’re not all gonna be gods gift to agencies.

But what you can control is being a good person, doing good work and shooting them straight when it’s unprofitable for you. Long term you win.